Top 100 Levy Quotes
#1. My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
Jane Levy
#2. All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
Ariel Levy
#3. We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
Steven Levy
#4. [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.
Steven Levy
#5. There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#6. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#7. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
Deborah Levy
#8. I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.
William Levy
#10. If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.
Marv Levy
#11. If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.
Marv Levy
#12. A good education prepares you well for anything.
Marv Levy
#13. In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.
Shawn Levy
#14. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
#15. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#16. These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool.
Ariel Levy
#17. I've always been entranced by writing.
Marv Levy
#18. When you're in front of a camera, it's not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what you say as long as you say it with a smile.
Marc Levy
#19. Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Maurice Levy
#20. to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;
Steven Levy
#21. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.
Pierre Levy
#22. I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy
#23. Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
Levy Mwanawasa
#24. I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.
Marv Levy
#25. I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.
Jane Levy
#26. When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
Marv Levy
#27. Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.
Paul Levy
#28. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.
Cathleen Schine
#29. When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
Marv Levy
#30. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#31. I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.
Craig Horner
#32. Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?
Marc Levy
#33. To use the language of a war correspondent, which was, she knew, what Isabel Jacobs happened to be, she would have to say thay Kitty Finch was smiling at her with hostile intent.
Deborah Levy
#34. History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185)
Deborah Levy
#35. A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.
Ariel Levy
#37. I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
Steven Levy
#40. He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught.
Alice Hoffman
#41. A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
Richard LaGravenese
#42. The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
Mervyn Levy
#43. The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy
#44. What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.
Marv Levy
#45. The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.
Ariel Levy
#46. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.
Paul Levy
#47. The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#48. Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.
Shawn Levy
#49. Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.
Paul Levy
#50. Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
Jane Levy
#51. I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say
Marc Levy
#52. Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new.
Amy Levy
#53. I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
Marv Levy
#54. I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.
Jane Levy
#55. I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.
Deborah Levy
#56. As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#57. To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.
Shawn Levy
#58. Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.
Maurice Levy
#59. You think I started out like this?
Well, I didn't.
I started out like anyone else - young and hopeful. I started out arrogant and in love, assuming the whole dizzy world was where it should be: at my feet. I started out - well, I started out a little like you.
Gail Levy
#60. I've never seen 'Evil Dead 2.' Sorry about that. I'm sorry to the world.
Jane Levy
#61. The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't.
Ariel Levy
#62. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.
Ariel Levy
#63. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.
Jane Levy
#64. I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that ... or 'Come on, you got to be tough ... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
Marv Levy
#65. When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast.
Maurice Levy
#66. The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,
Adrian Levy
#67. At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.
Jane Levy
#68. I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#69. I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.
Jane Levy
#70. One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
Eugene Levy
#71. I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.
Marv Levy
#72. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.
Marv Levy
#73. There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.
Ariel Levy
#74. The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.
William Levy
#75. Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
#76. She is dark. He is fair. She comes from there. He comes from here. They like each other. It is an easy and lovely lust ...
Deborah Levy
#77. The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.
Murray Rothbard
#78. Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.
Shawn Levy
#79. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.
-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue
Ariel Levy
#80. I would say, while I think audiences are savvy enough, I think that the effects work in the teaser is quite a bit more than presentable. I think they look good and representative of the film. The harder thing with the teaser, interestingly enough is, how much to show.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#81. Since the future cannot be known and everything is changeable, I beg all of you to find the people you have come to love and express yourself with fervency. You will never have this chance again.
Michael Levy
#82. I like jeans with sneakers or boots.
Jane Levy
#83. There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,
Leon Levy
#84. An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.
Mervyn Levy
#85. Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.
Adrian Levy
#86. I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.
Marv Levy
#87. In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.
Frank Levy
#88. There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you know, when you work in comedy, you depend on audience screenings to tell you about your movie.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#89. I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
Deborah Levy
#90. Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#91. In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
William Levy
#92. Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.
Paul Levy
#93. A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
Marv Levy
#94. The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Steven Levy
#96. We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#97. I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
Thomas Jefferson
#98. I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
Shawn Levy
#99. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
#100. The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
Bernard-Henri Levy
